Courtesy of the Fremont Moo
Rain doesn’t hamper either team’s bats as Joshua Hardamon’s walk-off Grand Slam seals the Moo’s fourth victory of the second half.
Game one started almost two hours after the initial start time due to a sudden rain shower that delayed the game.
When game one began, Broc Songster (Doane) would take the mound for the Moo. He would struggle to find the strike zone and walk the first three batters, and it wouldn’t get better after that. Four runners would score on one hit as nine Prospects would come to the plate.
The Moo would not be able to put across any runs, and it would be 4-0 Prospects until the second, when the Prospects would push across a fifth run to make it 5-0 Prospects by the end of the second.
The third inning would see the Prospects put across four more runs to make it 9-0 Prospects. Then the rain came through once more, postponing the game for a little over two hours. The doubleheader would be rescheduled to a one-seven-inning contest.
The bottom of the third would see the Moo bats come alive for a three-run inning. Cooper Fuchino (Creighton) would double home two, and Tyman Long (North Dakota State) would single home another to make it 9-3, Moo still behind.
The fourth would see Tyler Wise (Kansas Wesleyan) take the mound and shut down the Prospects in the top of the fourth. The Moo comeback would continue with Fuchino once again bringing home a run while being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, and Grant Ryan (Northeast CC) would bring home another run on a single. The Moo had struck for two to make it 9-5, going to the fifth.
A Prospect flyout and walk would bring home two to put the Prospects up by five once more. The Moo would answer back with an RBI double from Tanner Jacobsen (Cloud County), an RBI single from Henry Hayman (Akron), and a monstrous two-run home run from Fuchino to make it 11-10 at the end of the fifth, the Moo still behind.
Joe Hauser (Creighton) would relieve Wise with the bases loaded and one out in the sixth. Hauser would work around a few batters, giving up two walks that would score two runs, and allowing a sac fly to bring home another to make it 14-10, Prospects.
The Moo would go scoreless in the sixth and the Prospects in the top of the seventh, keeping the score at 14-10 in the Prospects’ favor going to the bottom of the seventh.
The bases would be loaded for Grant Ryan. His patient approach would bring home a run to make it 14-11 with the tying run at the plate being The Hammer.
Joshua “The Hammer” Hardamon (Midland) would rocket a laser over the left-center wall to hit the team’s first walk-off home run of the season, a grand slam. The Moo won 15-14 in seven innings.
The final line saw the Moo score fifteen (15) runs on twelve (12) hits and commit two (2) errors. The Prospects scored fourteen (14) runs on ten (10) hits and had no (0) errors defensively.
Joe Hauser picks up the win for the Moo, Cody Cizek gets handed the loss.
Fremont moves to a 14-16 record overall and a 4-3 second-half record. The Prospects move to a 5-14 overall record.
The Moo are back Monday night at Moller Field to take on the Casper Spuds at 7:05 to begin the three-game series.
